“’The Other Typist’ by Suzanne Rindell is a period piece set in the 1920s, about a woman who’s a typist for the New York City Police Department. Beyond that I don’t know much more, but I can feel myself tense up a little, pleasurably, in anticipation.”

Eric Dane

Actor

“‘Out of Range’ by Hank Steinberg is really smart and character-driven, and so intense from the first page. I couldn’t put it down.”

Cady Huffman

Tony-award winning actress, currently at work on The Sonnet Project

“I’m on a Shakespeare kick! And my mother knows it. So she sent me ‘Living With Shakespeare’ by Susannah Carson. A new book outlining why 40 respected Actors, directors, scholars and writers love and relate to Shakespeare. It’s fascinating. Thanks mom!”

“Very excited about diving into ‘Constance’ by Patrick McGrath, one of my favorite contemporary writers. He writes a genre all his own, a type of neo-gothic, for lack of a better term. Very chilly, spare, detached novels, often about the most dramatic, violent and passionate of circumstances. There’s no one like him writing today. “

Raul de Molina,

Emmy award winning host of Univision’s El Gordo Y La Flaca

“I’m bringing ‘King of Cuba’ [by Cristina Garcia] with me on my Hawaiian vacation this summer. I’m very interested in the book because it’s related to the country that I was born in.”

Joan Rivers

Comedian and author of “I Hate Everyone…Starting With Me,” out now

“I am deeply engrossed in ‘Gulp’ by Mary Roach. I adore all of her books, from ‘Stiff’ to ‘Packing for Mars’! They are smart, informative, quirky and funny and will give you enough dinner table anecdotes to use during a 3-day weekend in the Hamptons.”

Author of “Dead Ever After,” the last of the Sookie Stackhouse series, out now

“I’m eagerly anticipating “Blood of Tyrants” by Naomi Novik, the latest of her books which combine the Napoleonic wars and dragons. If you think that just won’t work, try them.”

Carole Radziwill

“Real Housewives of New York” and author of “The Widow’s Guide to Sex & Dating,” out in September

“ ‘Snapper’ by Brian Kimberling, linked stories about a birdwatcher, is a perfect vacation read. Quirky and fun, and a sweet, well-written story.”

Marc Maron

Comedian and author of “Attempting Normal.”

“If you lived in NYC in the nineties and loved the old LES and rock and roll, ‘Poseur’ by Marc Spitz will bring you back. You might get a jones going. You’ve been warned.”

Cheryl Strayed

Author of “Wild”

“Everything I’ve read about ‘You Are One of Them’ by Elliot Holt intrigues me, probably because it’s about intimacies . . . I have grand plans to be reading it pool side come July.”

James Patterson

Author of “12th Of Never,” out now

“Amanda Knox’s memoir ‘Waiting to By Heard,’ with all the twists and turns of the dramatic Italian justice system, is fascinating, and well worth spending time with her side of the story.”

Lauren Graham

Actress and author of “Someday, Someday, Maybe”

“ ‘Claudia Silver to the Rescue’ by Kathy Ebel. Witty and moving portrayal of a girl in New York in the ’90s making all the wrong decisions.”

Katie Couric

Host of “Katie” and bestselling author

“It doesn’t sound like beach reading, but I’m excited to hear Richard Haass’ argument (in “Foreign Policy Begins at Home”) about how fixing things at home will help us deal with the other things that are wrong around the world.”

Ivanka Trump

EVP of Trump Organizations, Founder of Ivanka Trump lifestyle brand

“Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen (“The New Digital Age”) write about reality of today’s culture where two civilizations — the old and the digital — are converging. The result is an epic exploration of our future society and I can’t wait to finish what is already an incredibly smart, creative and imaginative read.”

Trudie Styler

Actress, director, producer

“I first met Khaled Hosseini in 2009, and he spoke very movingly of his attachment to Afghanistan, where he was born and raised. Since then I’ve been working on bringing ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ to the screen. So I’m really looking forward to the summer when I’ll have time to sit down with his new novel, ‘And the Mountains Echoed.’ ”